Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-07-30
PirH AND POINT.

A laborer in Vermont recently
ly developed into very rich stone
quarry. His was a hard lot. but It had
its compensations.- National Weekly.
When a tramp is fortunate enough
to get hold of tho upper portion of a
roasted fowl he generally makes a
clean breast of il. -7eras Si1inga
There is more joy in saiictum for
the bore who is Kicked than there is
for the ninety and nine who get away
with yohr fayorite exchanges.-White-
hall Times. e.
In the bright lexicon Of youth there
ID no such word as fail, but later on.
when the youth gets into business for
himself, then the word shows up in
good shape life.
An exchange refers to a contempor-
airy as having changed its form to a
quarto. He could not probably, find
sufficient exhilaration in pinto. All.
there-o!-1fras Sytings.. .r.
Some old dinner customs still prevail.
The Romans used to recine at their
banquets. and tho habit of lying at
public dinners still prevails. Bolton
Commercial Bulletin.
THE best thoughts. says an Eng
hsh writer. '.come 'slowly."S So do the
best men in fact, good men come SO
slowly that they often fail to get around
at all.-ArkGnsaaO Traveller.
The rain falls upon the Just and the
unjust, and is as ready to break up the
base ball game as it is to spoil picnic
for an orphan asylum.-NeW Orleans
Ptcdyune.: al ~ ~
Art is long and time is fleeing, but
the heavens will roll together as
scroll and chaos will come again before
any of our hated rivals will have an
owl named after them. Now is the
time to subscribe Job work in any
color of the rainbow executed with
nsntness and5dispatch. -sDA City Der
The poor innocent, I 1onruee.suffsripp,
much-abused Monkeys! The cute. Graf
tty. cunning. cheerful. chattering mon
keys! The good. gentle, gracious. glib
have they done that they should be thus
misrepresented. and scandalized, and
libeled. and malgned, as to be men,
toned in the same breath with the
dudes. = retsePs Weekly.
"a yOuuS correspondence WanCS 70
know: "What is the critical period in
mans life?" Well, my boy. it usual
sly begins about six weeks after he is
married. and lasts all the rest Of his
life.-Notes and Queries.
Toads become torpid in winter, and
hide themselves, taking no food for
four or five months, like candidates for
Office. who hunt their holes and never ap.
pear again until just previous to n NOM
mating conyehtion.-Nntional Weesiy.
Baseball playing says an eminent
physician, "causes heart disease. Yes,
but the disease does its work with pain-
full slowness. Can't you find some
disease that will transact business more
rapidlyp-ArLansa,0 Traveller.
The telephone girls in the central Of
fee don't feel insulted if { man speaks
to them before he has been introduced.
He only has to say Hello and they
will chat as freely as if they had sung in
the same church choir with hm.-Fall
River Advance.
1t is very difficult for lady to enter
or leave carriage properly. It re.
guires practice and carriage The
carriage is the hardest thing to acquire.
-Sas Francisco Wasp.
"Umbagog," named by the indians.
means in English .'beautiful water, -
but there are lots of people along the
Androscoggin that would like to see
Umbagogs beautiful water damed.-
Gorhans Mountaineer.